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Bucharest Apartments

New Bucharest Residence design by ADN Birou de Arhitectură, Romania

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Bucharest Apartments in Romania

Design: ADN Birou de Arhitectură

Location: Str. Dogarilor 26–30, București / 26–30, Dogarilor Street, Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest Apartments in Romania Design

One of the most important and problematic aspects of nowadays Bucharest is the fast densification of the central area.

While the architects believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, they also admit that the often fragile relationship between habitation within an old neighborhood and the increase of density could many times alter the place and reduce its existing qualities.

The project is looking for an appropriate answer to this problem. It tries to mediate between different sizes and densities, in a quite central neighborhood characterized by small streets, long, narrow plots and a puzzle of old and new buildings of all types and scales.

The building searches to preserve, at its own scale, the porosity and “profoundness” of the deep, narrow plots, while also trying to capture part of the “collage”-like appearance of the surroundings.

The volumetric proposal seeks to partially open the building to the street, in the depth of the plot. Because of this, the volume facing the street is less compact and the ground floor is more transparent, in order to allow a better visual connection at eye’s level.

In this way, the architects have also tried to mediate between the continuous alignment required by the urban regulation and the specific of the street and of the surrounding urban fabric, characterized by fragmentation.

At the same time, the project proposes a type of habitation which the architects consider suitable for the center of the contemporary city: a place where the relatively small spaces and the density are complemented by diversity and wider common spaces.

Most of the apartments are different from one another, not only in size, but especially in typology: they range from studios to four-bedroom apartments – each one of them laying on one, two or even three floors and having private courtyards, balconies or terraces of different sizes.

They all are complemented by several indoor and outdoor common spaces (terraces, party room, large halls etc.), while the ground floor offers several commercial spaces and ateliers to rent, towards the street and the inner courtyard.

The apartments are conceived by ADN Birou de Arhitectură in such way as to allow a great deal of flexibility, making it possible to connect (horizontally or vertically) two or more small units into a larger one.

Such changes have occurred all along the construction process, leading, in the end, at a building consisting of 77 residential units offering approx. 50 types of apartments.

Bucharest Apartments – Building Information

Architecture and design coordination: ADN Birou de Arhitectură
Developer: Salzburg Investment Group SA
Project management: Salzburg Investment Group SA, Vision Property Partner
Authors: Andrei Șerbescu, Adrian Untaru, Claudiu Forgaci, Valentina Ţigâră, Bogdan Brădăţeanu, Simina Ignat
Collaborators: Cosmin Dragomir, Marius Dumitrașcu, Cristina Enuţă, Carmen Petrea, Elena Barbu, Bogdan Marinescu, Oana Cucoranu, Sebastian Șerban, Anamaria Pircu, Alexandra Vișan
Structure: Popp și Asociaţii
Installations: Solid Proiect

Number of units: 77 apartamente, 2 ateliere/spaţii comerciale / 77 apartments, 2 ateliers/shops
Total built area: 8.537 m2
Design and construction period: 2011–14

Manufacturers:
Architectural works: Petcu Construct
Structure: Virom International
Masonry: Cabro Construct
Façades: Confelux Prod
Waterproofing: Total Izolaţii
Electrical installations: Triac Inst 96
Thermical, sanitary installations, HVAC: Insaterm Total
Flooring in common spaces: Creative Paving
Interior floors, microtopping, epoxi resins: Concrete Art
Furniture: Acant Design, Ador Mobila, Silva Artis, Woodyo
Landscaping: Senzui Studio
Interior floors, wooden deck: Katmus Serv
Glass partitions: Glass Expert

Suppliers:
Aluminum windows: Alukönigstahl
Waterproofing: Bauder
Sanitary: Gala
Faucets: Kludi
Interior floors, wooden deck: Natural Wood Floor
Exterior flooring: Lafarge Comnord
Furniture: MOOR
Air conditioning: LG Electronics
Glass partitions: Glass Expert

Photographs: Cosmin Dragomir

Bucharest Apartments images / information from ADN Birou de Arhitectură

Location: Bucharest, Romania, southeast Europe

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